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That those are reliable technologies, i guess its not clear what you mean by reliable. there is no foolproof technology for executing someone. theyve been botched executions of all kinds. theres been botched efforts to use the firing squad. so there is an effort in the united states to find a technology of execution that is safe, reliable and humane. and weve gone from hanging to the electric chair, to the gas chamber, to lethal injection. and now were in a period where states are starting to tr...

What are they doing, arthur? >> it works. the bottom line is there has been so many issues lately with the lethal injection. theres two issues, one, it hasnt been working. the concoction of drugs have had people suffering. its taking two hours to die. and there have been physical signs that they are violating the constitution with cruel and unusual punishment by the way theyre killing them. number one. number two is europe where we get the drugs, they do not -- these lethal drugs, they do not li...

And the rest of the states by extension wants to embrace international condemnation by returning to a barbaric day -- >> they dont care about international condemnation. texas is next. theyre about to run out of the lethal injection drugs. and they too may have to do what utahs doing as well as a couple other states. we may be having death by firing squads in quite a few states although oklahoma hasnt yet or utah hasnt approved it officially. >> correct. but the key part is its already in the co...

Actively shooting people. i just think its a bad precedent. >> reporter: but utah lawmakers wednesday passed a bill 18-10 making the firing squad the preferred alternative to lethal injection. >> they havent decided whether theyll sign a bill but in a statement he suggests he will saying the state cannot have a death penalty with no means to carry it out. bret. >> william, thank you. next in the grapevine making a profit from growing old, even if you do not survive. ♪ and if you should survi...

Close to bringing back the firing squad as a way to execute inmates who are sitting on death row. you heard me right, the firing squad. you may remember that it was formally banned in utah. but it was last used in this execution chamber back in 2010. thats when the condemned man, ronnie lee gardner, actually made the choice to be shot to death over lethal injection. that was allowed at the time and that was his choice. so theres a bill right now on the governors desk to bring back the firing squ...

While less painful than the electric chair and quicker than lethal injection many still consider it barbaric and outdated and given that negative publicity utah adopted the lethal injection instead and some want to keep it that way. >> i think it will be bad if utah is the only state thats actively shooting people. i just think its a bad precedent and i think its a place we shouldnt go. disrespect problem is utah has nine inmates on death row and no way to kill them. lethal injection, the more h...

We have no intent to change that. but thats the main point, even if the law passes, utah will still plan to execute prisoners by lethal injection. but if those deadly execution drugs arent available in time, the state says it will stay on schedule. the utah state representative named paul ray is the man who sponsored that bill and hes also live with me now. representative ray, thanks so much for coming back on the program. i think it was ten months ago you and i began this conversation when the ...

Way possible. im not sure how you can compare this to isis. if you see the polls -- >> i need you to know this for sure. im not comparing this to isis. they are brutal murderers. these are executions that are sanctioned by law. its the method of the execution. its the eighth amendment against cruel and unusual punishment. and the firing squad, i think, by many peoples estimations, is cruel. >> well, i think any way that you have to kill somebody can be cruel. but we do -- we know for a fact its ...

>> reporter: advocates say utah doesnt have a choice. the state has nine inmates on death row and no way to kill them. after inmates in several states like arizonas joseph wood did not die as quickly as expected by lethal injection. media observers describe what they saw. >> it was very disturbing to watch a man lay there for 1:40 gulping air. >> reporter: antideath penalty lawyers say lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment and unconstitutional. the drugs european manufacturer is ban f...

Just announced that murder charges against her will be dismissed. >> the state that has exonerated the most people is texas. graves was chon rated in 2010 after being scheduled twice for lethal injection. >> finally free he says he is not bitter. >> i never lost home. once you lose hope youre just a dead man walking. so i never lost hope. >> he spent 18 years in prison for a mass murder that he didnt commit. it was the 1992 killing of a summerville woman, her daughter and four grandchildren. the...